Excavated: 1881 (upper level) (no excavation report published; Lanciani), 1913 (lower level) (GdS 1913, 331 (November 1-30); NSc 1914, 72 with 73 fig. 1; Calza).
Mosaic: SO IV, 84 nr. 136, tav. 81 (top).
Inscription: ---.
Date: 190-200 AD; ca. 150 AD (lower level) (SO IV); ca. 160-180 AD (lower level) (Clarke).
Meas. of tesserae: 0.015 (SO IV).

Photos and drawings:

Front room and back room (dga)

Front room and back room (gh)

Front room and back room (gh2)

Front room and back room (from the west) (gh)

Front room and back room (from the west) (tm)

Front room and back room (from the west) (tm)

Back room (Clarke 1979, fig. 38a)

Back room (from the west) (Clarke 1979, fig. 38)

Back room (from the south-west) (gh2)

Back room (column) (from the west) (tm)

Back room (column) (from the west) (tm)

Statio 56 - 58 (from the west) (tm)

Statio 58 + statio 57 (from the south-east; left + right) (tm)

Statio 58 + statio 57 (centre + right) (gh2)

Lower level

Depiction (right) (NSc; also NADIS inv. nr. 635)

Depiction (top) (SO IV)

Depiction (DAI)

Depiction (Alinari; 1985-1995)

Depiction (et)

Depiction (kh; 2013)

Depiction (kh; 2013)

Depiction (kh; 2013)

Mosaic

The lower level in the back room was investigated in 1913. Nothing was then reported about the layer above the lower level. The central west part of the floor of the front room has been preserved. The north end of the room has a wide band of white marble, of which the west and east part are lost. It is slightly to the south of the axis of the central column. The room is bordered on the south side by a thin band of white marble (on the axis of the central column), next to which, on its south side, is a black band, 3-4 tesserae wide. In the centre of the room is a geometric design, restored with black and white tesserae.

The east half of the lower floor of the back room has been preserved, with the exception of the edges. It contains a very wide black frame (18 tesserae wide), containing two further black frames with depictions. The wide frame is not in the centre of the back room, but moved considerably to the north. It is surrounded by white tesserae forming diagonal lines. Inside is a white band (5 tesserae wide). A black band (3 tesserae wide) then creates the first internal frame (outer meas. 2.95 x 2.40). On the east side of the black band stands the second internal frame (2 tesserae wide; outer meas. 1.36 x 0.98). The northern column and travertine plinth of the "Claudian phase" are standing on top of the design at the north-east corner. Whether the plinth is actually standing on top of tesserae cannot be ascertained.

No text has been preserved.

The geometric design in the front room consists of alternating black and white squares and rectangles. There are extensive restorations with black and white tesserae.

In the frame in the back room are vegetative motifs. Below and in between is another frame with a standing figure and an animal. According to Becatti we see Diana holding a spear and a bow, and a deer. Shadows are indicated by horizontal lines.

Becatti
Diana. Un'Artemide di prospetto, stante, con un corto chitonisco che lascia nude le gambe, con rimbocco alla vita, ornato di due clavi verticali. Tiene nella mano destra, abbassata di lato, un giavellotto e nella sinistra, pure abbassata, un piccolo arco. Accanto a destra è un cervo di profilo verso sinistra, dalle zampe divaricate, fermo, che abbassa la testa dai palchi ramosi. Girali a volute con viticci, terminanti in boccioli, partenti da un cespo di acanto centrale stilizzato posto sulla metà Ovest, sovrastato da un altro cespo minore con tre foglie completando questa cornice floreale.

Masonry

The back wall of the back room is of opus latericium with one row of oblong tufa stones, resting on opus reticulatum. A north wall of uncertain masonry, probably modern, only serves to bridge the difference in height with statio 56. There is no south wall. No fake, brick plinths have been preserved around the central columns.

Interpretation

The mosaic is at the level of the Claudian phase. However, a column with a travertine plinth that has been assigned to this phase is standing on top of it.